3rd District At-Large Councilman Quinton Lucas: "I believe the hundreds of people who marched asking for a name change and the others who have spent years asking for a chance to share why they support a name change deserve a hearing, not the bureaucratic maze in which everyone claims to support some honor, but no one does anything . . . Here’s the deal. People deserve a hearing. Not a circus. With the delays, it’s hard for one not to think about Dr. King’s suggestion that issues like this “merely bring to the surface tension that is already alive.” Rather than burying it again or moving the debate to another neighborhood, another commission, or another City Council, Kansas City can and should decide, either through its Council or at the ballot, how to honor Dr. King."

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Well of course he does he's so into Black Lives Matter that he is going to cost the city tons of money to pay MLK's family money from tax payers EVERY YEAR not to mention signage just to change the name of a street and mark his territory.

Why honor the man when people don't follow his life except when it's politically to their advantage? And fuck his family for pimping out his name for money! Leave Paseo alone and move on to important problems in our city. We aren't Memphis.

There's ice on every dammaged side street in this city right now and THIS is your priority Mr. Lucas?!?! Give me the good old days when Mayors actually ran cities and had a plan to make them better. This whole MLK thing is a farce to give him a legacy. Why i have no idea considering all black mayors hidden job is to get as much federal money to pass out to their people as possible. Case and point, i give you Sly James.

What about the KCMO population who wants to keep it as it is.Is this a position by Lucas which is representing the majority of KC?How about creating a taxing district 6 blocks on either side of the Paseo to pay for all aspects of the renaming???

30% of voters are African American. MLK rename locks up the base.Easily enough to keep him in the top 2 as the top black candidate.

On to the general...30% base requires another 20% to win.Simple math, that's 28.14% of the remaining 70% of votes. Lucas easily gets a third of them, especially with 10% coming from Latinos.Solid base + a third of rest = Lucas in a landslide.